1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Slush bucket.  A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food.

Sly boots.  A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity.

SMABBLED, or SNABBLED. Killed in battle.

To smack.  To kiss.  I had a smack at her muns:  I kissed
  her mouth.  To smack calves skin; to kiss the book, i.e.
  to take an oath.  The queer cuffin bid me smack calves
  skin, but I only bussed my thumb; the justice bid me
  kiss the book, but I only kissed my thumb.

SMACKSMOOTH.  Level with the surface, every thing cut away.

Smacking cove.  A coachman.

Small clothes.  Breeches:  a gird at the affected delicacy
  of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat,
  and articles, or small clothes.

Smart.  Spruce, fine:  as smart as a carrot new scraped.

Smart money.  Money allowed to soldiers or sailors for
  the loss of a limb, or other hurt received in the service.

Smasher.  A person who lives by passing base coin.  The
  cove was fined in the steel for smashing; the fellow was
  ordered to be imprisoned in the house of correction for
  uttering base coin.

Smash.  Leg of mutton and smash:  a leg of mutton and
  mashed turnips.  Sea term.

To smash.  To break; also to kick down stairs.  Cant
  To smash.  To pass counterfeit money.

Smear.  A plasterer.

Smear gelt.  A bribe.  German.

Smeller.  A nose.  Smellers:  a cat’s whiskers.

Smelling cheat.  An orchard, or garden; also a nosegay. 
  Cant.

Smelts.  Half guineas.  Cant.

SMICKET.  A smock, or woman’s shift.

Smirk.  A finical spruce fellow.  To smirk; to smile, or
  look pleasantly.

Smiter.  An arm.  To smite one’s tutor; to get money
  from him.  Academic term.

Smithfield bargain.  A bargain whereby the purchaser
  is taken in.  This is likewise frequently used to express
  matches or marriages contracted solely on the score of
  interest, on one or both sides, where the fair sex are bought
  and sold like cattle in Smithfield.

Smock-faced. Fair faced.

To smoke.  To observe, to suspect.

Smoker.  A tobacconist.

Smoky.  Curious, suspicious, inquisitive.

SMOUCH.  Dried leaves of the ash tree, used by the smugglers
  for adulterating the black or bohea teas.

SMOUS.  A German Jew.

Smug.  A nick name for a blacksmith; also neat and spruce.

Smug lay.  Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace
  and valuable articles; these men borrow money of
  publicans by depositing these goods in their hands; they
  shortly decamp, and the publican discovers too late that he has
  been duped; and on opening the pretended treasure, he
  finds trifling articles of no value.

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